Want more control over your internet traffic? Follow these simple steps to set up a proxy server, block unwanted websites, mask your IP address, and more.

Basically, the reverse proxy is another server on your home network that sits between the internet-at-large and your self-hosted apps and other servers.

The reverse proxy then forwards the request to that server, allows the request to be processed, obtains a response from that backend server, and then send the response back to the client. An Nginx ...